Mum slammed for being "stingy" after refusing to buy $2 snack for daughter's playdate
A mum has come under fire for being "selfish" and "stingy" after refusing to buy a $2 snack for her 11-year-old daughter’s best friend.
The woman, believed to be from the US, and her daughter Ellie were invited for a playdate at an indoor playground with 12-year-old Sophie and her mum.
Sophie's mum offered to put them on her membership card so that Ellie and her mum could go to the indoor playground for free.
“Sophie’s mum called me... and Sophie wanted to know if Ellie could come and play," she began in a Reddit thread called Am I the a****** .
"She offered to put me on her membership card so it would be free for me so I got Ellie in the car and we met them at the playground.”
Trouble started when the girls got hungry after an hour of playing, and Ellie's mum only packed a snack for her daughter.
“Sophie’s mum didn’t have any snacks on her,” she said.
“I told her they sell snacks in the front but she claimed that she didn’t have any money on her and asked me to buy Sophie some Goldfish."
Ellie's mum agreed to grab the crackers on one condition - Sophie's mum had to transfer the money to her.
“She says she paid for my kid to get in so I could cover the $2 for the Goldfish. I said no, I took care of my kid and it’s not my job to take care of hers too.
“I told her if she wanted me to bring snacks she should’ve told me when she invited me but I won’t be wasting $2 for a 50 cent bag of Goldfish because she was unprepared.”
She added that Sophie's mum eventually managed to get snacks for her own daughter, and wondered "if she lied about not having money".
She then accused Sophie's mum of being "petty" for asking her to pay back for “all the times” she's used her membership to get a guest pass at the indoor playground, adding that "they regularly pay for us to join them on outings.”
Her post was met with over 2500 comments slamming her for being “selfish”, “stingy” and “ungrateful”.
“You were invited to a place for free that you would otherwise have had to pay for. You only packed snacks for your child? Why didn’t you also take snacks for the other child?" one wrote.
“Yes, you did not have to do so, and that child is not your responsibility, but if I was meeting someone for a playdate for my child, not paying to get in, knowing, at some point both girls were going to be hungry, I would have packed snacks for both, as a thank you for the invitation and just because," the commenter continued.
“If someone asked me to transfer them $2, I’m rolling my eyes big time. It’s petty, especially when someone gave you something likely far more valuable," another added.
“Seriously. I don’t even think I could tell a stranger no when it comes to feeding their hungry child, much less a person I know and spend time with," a third commented.
Others called the mum a "fool", for potentially causing Ellie to lose her best friend.
“Don’t be an idiot. Apologise. You might care about 50 cents. But your daughter will lose her best friend. And that is worth a lot more. Your daughter might never get a friend like that... And the fact that universe gift wrapped a friend for your daughter. And you choose to throw it in the trash. Wow, you are truly a fool," they said.
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